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The Loss of Individuality The peak of a writers career should exhibit their most profound works of literature In the case of Aldous Huxley Brave New World is by far his most renowned novel Aldous Huxley is a European-born writer who in the midst of his career moved to the United States and settled in California While in California he began to have visions aided by his usage of hallucinatory drugs His visions were of a utopian society surviving here on earth In his literature Huxley wanted to make this utopian society as much a reality as possible In framing an ideal we may assume what we wish but should avoid impossibilities This quote written by Aristotle perfectly describes Huxleys attitude towards the creation of his imaginary utopia His only problem was establishing a value system that would not seem too unattainable Huxley has two novels that have the theme of utopia Brave New World and Island Brave New World which was written before Island has ideas that are quite far-fetched but in Huxleys eyes still close to reality Huxleys first portrait of utopia involves having a controlled society of people all being alike The year is AF 632 After Ford Ford is the equivalent to God in Brave New World and with the available technology citizens are mass produced Island is a product of the rethinking of Huxleys utopia The ideas are a lot more real because the people are just ordinary human beings Both of these novels have an underlying theme in common The stability of Huxleys utopian societies are centered around the loss of individualism Individuals are considered a threat in Huxleys utopian novels In the novel Island the utopian society is on a small island named Pala The leader of the utopian society Murugan is an individual apart from the community His plans are to modernize and charge the way the people of Pala live The reason he

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